Granted, the Canyon Craftsman and this bank deal in Del Mar Heights were new listings on Friday, but in both cases I saw three groups of people come by each house while I was there. Buyers are lying in wait for fresh meat, and are happy to cruise by – but are they biting?
Auntie Agent said that they had 100 people come by yesterday’s open house, how did it go today?
Jim, I was checking out open houses and looking at some stale listing today to see if they might be worth an offer. Plenty of traffic and the conversations I had indicated that the buyers were ready if the price was right.
I thought it was a buyers market? wouldn’t people have to be pretty desperate to buy a house that close to the freeway.
It’s not a buyers market at entry level prices in really good areas, which is what this one is. Those usually get multiple offers if in good shape, often all cash offers.
Jim, the open had about the same number of people as Saturday. Finally had to turn people away around 5. Even had a few from the blog stop by. :}
Thanks for touring the place.
Nice house but the freeway killed it for me.
At least we can see where the HELOC money went in this one, it looks nicely remodeled.
Jaston,
There’s all kinds of buyers out there. Sellers just need to price low and watch the offers come rolling in.
The problem is most sellers think they’re in the situation of power for the deal. And if worse comes to worse they can be deadbeats and free rent for about a year before the banks foreclose.
This is a nice house. It’s hard if not impossible to find a house this nice for under $900,000 in this zip code.
At the right price, it should easily find a buyer who wants Del Mar schools and/or the Del Mar zip code and is willing to live with the freeway noise to get it. After all, the houses on Portofino sell, and they are usually no where near as nice as this.